Lemmy.world reportedly bans people for being anti-Zionist. At the same time, numerous human rights organizations have documented that Zionist policies and actions amount to crimes against humanity (e.g., forced displacement, collective punishment, apartheid).
If banning opposition to crimes against humanity is itself anti-humanity, doesn’t that make lemmy.world complicit? How do you reconcile defending a platform that silences critics while atrocities continue?
Gramsci puts it perfectly, the smaller the group you are in and the less exposure you have to the broader world the smaller your ideas must necessarily be.
Yep, that’s why language learning is such a useful skill!
On a related note, I thought Dennett makes a really good argument in Consciousness Explained that our minds are basically made of memes in a very literal sense. The wiring in our brains is the substrate, but the memes that get seeded there are what really defines us more than anything.
Interesting, I’ll have to give that a look!